Sunday, June 24, 2012

Opinion ... It drives society ... but in what
direction? Maybe the question should be "what drives opinion?"
Everyone has one or so we're told. It's something we're entitled to? Something
that can be observed from different view points? Something from which you can
draw your own conclusion apart from others? If this is true, it has little to
do with an actual truth or fact. These, of course, are immutable rendering them
incompatible in any way with opinion which is subjective in nature leaving them
with only a navigational duty. After all, an orange is an orange regardless of
which direction you're looking at it, and opinions to the contrary are rendered
nonsensical and absurd. Still, they flow freely and the variety is almost
endless. We reverence them in a way that is shameless, considering the sources
that fuel these vehicles. Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly rare that
fact or truths are the navigators. Appetites for control or appetites out of
control feed the propagating opinion mill with the most incredible whoppers all
with the egotistical flair of the misplaced sovereignty unto man. The disciples
of these mantras of deceit remain undaunted in their quest. Most of our
encounters with the most outrageous of these abrogating, dictatorial purveyors of
policy driven, for our own welfare, revolutionizing opinion driven mandates are
usually armed with nothing more than a television and a bag of potato chips.
Still, public opinion can be ruthless if you find yourself on the outside and
you may find yourself being advised to keep it to yourself despite the
assurance that opinions are, as they say, "everyone is entitled to
one."

Oh, but this is the country where free speech
reigns. The first amendment says so. This is the perfect example for
examination as to where we should venture. After all, it's rare that one
can go very long without overhearing this discussed at work, church, the
grocery store, or wherever groups may meet giving opportunity to weigh in with
their discourse on a wide variety of remedial solutions for the country's
problems.

Let's start with the first five words "Congress shall make no law". At first
glance one would suppose that this would mean, congress shall make no law,
that they have been restricted as to making any laws as to what follows. "Respecting an establishment of religion"
is what follows. This raises many a question. Does it mean that it's the
judicial branch's responsibility to restrict religious freedom? Obviously, this
has to be their role in preserving "separation of church and state".
This certainly should be covered somewhere in the Constitution being a
Christian term and after all Christianity was the only religion on the menu. I
must have an edited version of the Constitution because I can't find that part
anywhere. We'll just have to trust our judicial leadership on this one because
of their ever-increasing prowess at extracting truth from the incredibly
deceptive simplicity of that first amendment. It just makes you wish they could
have been present to enlighten the framers of this document of all its
intricacy.

"Or
prohibiting free exercise thereof" follows next. To the untrained
eye one might expect this to mean prohibiting free exercise thereof.
Of course this means, except where we say you can't, despite the poor example given by the Founding Fathers. Thank god, their god anyway, for the ability to perpetrate this one on an ever
increasingly ignorant "we the people." Their god is very fond of
manipulation and whoppers. In fact, the Bible refers to him as the father of
whoppers. This is exceedingly important to me because it's an identifier. I'm
rather narrow in this regard. Call yourself whatever; if this is your only
means of promoting your agenda, I know who your daddy is.

"Or
abridging the freedom of speech,or of the press" is their favorite
part. Despite the prevailing Christian philosophy under girding the intent of
this portion that we're free only to be able to do that which is good and
lawful under God's word [that's the difference between the Republic our
founders formed and a democracy that they decided against because of the
inevitable failure experienced by preceding experiments in this form of
government] this section is invaluable in the preservation of pornographic
enterprises. Surely, this protects and projects our earnest endeavors to
protect an honest venture into capitalism. Still, we can be assured that this
will never be used to endorse hate speech such as might be used in a
politically incorrect fashion to promote antiquated ideals or virtues. Thank
their god we can be protected from that one thanks to our watchdog servants in
the Judicial Branch. Thank their god they're there for life protecting our
freedoms.

"Or the
right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances" ... We can kiss this one away now if we're
deemed a terrorist in the eyes of the Governing body thanks to recent
legislation suspending our fifth amendment rights by an overwhelmingly majority
of our revered senators. It's a little late now to question their authority in
interpreting this portion of the Bill of Rights [the Bill of Rights was added
to the Constitution by concerned founding fathers regarding the disregarding of
the inherent rights therewith]. I know literacy and comprehension rates are
falling but I wonder who is in la-la land, our congressmen or us for putting
them there. So will our opinion be based on the notion of original
intent or the prevailing opinion of separation of church and state in it's twisted polar opposite revision for the last 50 years win the day? Let's throw some light into the darkness to see what's
really lurking there.

The obvious course or route to take is always
back to the beginnings or the origins surrounding the article of debate. This
is good for my stance and something only to be discouraged, hidden or distorted
by the debunkers of the Judeo Christian undergirdings of our country's origins.
The Founding Fathers knew you couldn't have a garden without a gardener, something
from without that does the pruning, weeding, watering and so forth that
separates it from the outside environment making it what it is. More to the point, they believed in the God of the Bible.

Daniel Webster, known as the defender of our
Constitution, speaking from outside the White House July 4th 1851, a year
before his death, had this admonition for the country:

"Man is not only an
intellectual, but a religious being, and his religious feelings and habits require
cultivation. Let the religious element in man's nature be neglected - let him
be influenced by no higher motives than self-interest and subjected to no
stronger restraint than the limits of civil authority- and he becomes the
creature of selfish passion or blind fanaticism. The spectacle of a nation
[France] powerful and enlightened but without Christian faith has been
presented ... as a warning beacon for the nations. On the other hand, the
cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousness, incites to
general benevolence and the practical acknowledgment of the brotherhood of man,
inspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social
fabric."

Just an isolated speech
outside the Capital? At this time church services had been held in the capital
for 51 years. December 4, 1800, after having completed enough of the Capital
building to begin use thereof, the first order of business was an unanimous vote for the Capital to be used as a church with services reaching up four on any given Sunday. Thomas Jefferson was then Vice-President
becoming President the following year. He arrived Sundays in pouring rain, snow
or otherwise on horseback. Under his administration government money was
appropriated for ministry to the Indians not to mention his personal enlistment
of the military band for the purpose of playing for services at the Capital. Who would have thought he was so confused about "separation of church and state". Actually, he always had it right. He's not even within a stones throw of a modern democrat, much to their dismay.

"History by
apprising them of the past, will allow them to judge the future." Thomas
Jefferson

This is an important
clue as to why our friends have written a revisionist historical account. The
adoption of Public Schools Marxist based version based on his proletariat
systematic destruction of capitalistic forms of government confines history to
be reduced to an economic cause and effect only version effectively eliminating
any other aspects, such as Christianity. If it's not there we can pretend [or
lie] it didn't happen nor did it have a place in who we are as a nation.

John Jay, Founding Father and one of three
authors of the federalist papers, said this:

"The Bible ...
should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its
containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated
to produce private and public happiness."

Here's another signer
confused about the Christian principle of separation of church and state. He's
not the only one, obviously. Reverend Frederick Augustus Mulenberg, first
Speaker of the House, was one of two signatures on the Bill of Rights of which
he and his brother, Reverend John Peter Gabriel Mulenberg were framers. Twenty-four
of fifty-six signers of the Constitution also held seminary degrees. At the
ratification conventions, forty-four delegates were ministers. All of the
grievances reiterated in the Declaration of Independence are found in the
written sermons of prominent pastors [they wrote everything out much to the
dismay of our revisionist writers]. The American Political Science Review in a
study to review where our Constitution came from found that 94% of all
documents of the Founding Era of our nation were based on the Bible. 34% were
direct quotes from the Bible. This is incredible! How come they don't have an
enlightened view of the Christian principle of "Separation of Church and
state?"

My apologies to any of the home schoolers that
may read this. You already know all of this. I would encourage people to go to
the site "Library of Congress -Religion and the Founding Era". I've
written enough make my case and there are thousands of actual documents and
quotes. In all actuality, we understand the subversion of our country has been
a battleground from the beginning. The issue of "Separation of Church and
State" was settled in the Supreme Court [not really Supreme in reality] in
the 1800's declared, under a barrage of evidence proving that this was a Christian
nation, that it was, as always intended, "no prohibiting of the free exercise thereof".

The passage of the bill in 1954 containing Lyndon
Johnson’s one sentence 501[c][3] provision for silencing criticism detrimental
to his election campaign slipped through without notice or debate providing the
IRS to impose the free speech restrictions on pastors through regulatory
administrative decisions. This means, and popular it is becoming, you can
effectively side step "we the people".

The other side of the debate is shallow and
without substantiation. It's based on a socialistic presumption of "man as
sovereign philosophy." My main objection is their premise of a
relativistic, floating crap table that allows lying to be okay in obtaining
their equality for all mirage. The Pilgrims were the first to discard the
failed trappings of this philosophy after two years of starving. Exodus 18:21
provided them with the foundation of elected representation. Welfare reform
came from the Biblical mandate that if one is able, one should not eat if one
does not work.

1Tim. 5:8 “But if any
provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.”

Marx did not deny that his proletariat form of
rule was dictatorship. Many a Christian will deny this allegiance, but any
honest research into the architects of the separation of church and state will
find themselves at his door.

So, is it just a matter of opinion? Opinion has a
way of disappearing under the light of truth. I still have my opinions but have
an earnest desire to be free of them. I don't believe that will happen this
side of heaven, certainly not by holding onto that bag of chips and the remote.
My ultimate conception of humiliation would be to be defeated by such as these.

"Seek ye first the
kingdom of God."

Those who would deceive and rob us are numerous
and driven. If you have to own an opinion or have an opinion own you, make an
honest effort to discover the architect. You have a choice of two. One cannot
lie; one is the father of lies. I'll say it one more time because it's an
"identifier".Manipulation is
a lie. God will lead you into truth by His Word. The Founding Fathers were grounded in this belief and laid the foundation of our country on it. Our detractors know this too and are furious and
unrelenting in their attack and that is why we stand firm.We stand on the Truth.

Opinion:
The judgment which the mind forms of any proposition, statement, theory or
event, the truth or falsehood of which is supported by a degree of evidence
that renders it probable, but does not produce absolute certainty.

Tole: To
draw or cause to follow by presenting something pleasing or desirable to view;
to allure by some bait.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

I have an older friend at work whom, as he's leaving, always remarks with a quip from a generation soon to pass, "catch your act later." Am I an act? If indeed I am an act, I hope it's a good act, or at the very least a good portrayal. "Of what" do I portray? Is it in the sense of moral conduct as in deeds done or behaviour appropriated for the occasion of the moment? At least it would seem to have been done I hope, as an exploit or achievement, whether good or ill, as my dictionary translates. It just strikes me as such an odd remark leaving me feeling rather uneasy, espescially after my last post. If, when upon observation, my presence is summed up in such a quip as this, how was my perfomance received? And much more to my horror, did anyone see, as I sometimes see, how phony and poor the performance can be when scrutinized by a discerning eye? After all, what I long for in relationship, is simply, genuiness, something real, something concrete. A pretender, after all, is nothing more than a liar. I'm as convinced of this as of anything else because it's who I am too much of the time. I'm not saying that one should not be kind when the feeling is not there. We're all past that I would hope. I'm not saying that "to put on Christ" is not to be pursued with all of our heart, or at the very least an attempt to be made. I'm saying it scares me to death that my present witness could be reduced to a mere act, unsustainable and laughable by my preceding acts, revealing a lack of depth and conviction. When the reviews come in, or rather out when I leave the room, are they compelling enough to sell the story. After all, you can't sell what you don't have and it preys upon my mind and spirit when I'm "caught in the act."
One more of the many ways in which my dictionary references act is this. "A state of reality or real existence, as opposed to a possibility."
"The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterwards grow to be."
Hooker

About Me

I'm the dreaded fundamentalist you keep hearing about from the media. I believe the Bible [textus receptus]. I'm not a flavor [???? Christian], just Christian and amazed by the church's concessions hoping to appease an anti-Christian [rather a fallen societal antichrist deluded socialist agenda] sentiment fueled by the constant barrage of misrepresentations by a biased [lying] constituancy.